This tentative agreement includes a preferential bidding system (PBS) as the delivery process for monthly schedules. Hear about ALPA’s enhanced control over trip construction and how PBS will work.
Many terms may be unfamiliar. Some may find the glossary below helpful while listening to this episode.
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Preferential Bidding System (PBS) Glossary
Average Line Value (ALV)
The average Credit value of all lines in a Base Position. ALV will include all known Credit in that Base Position.
Correct Line:
The initial line the Pilot should have been awarded had a PBS Misaward not occurred.
Credit Window
Credit range within which a line may be awarded.
Denial Mode
A process in PBS that:
Fill to Threshold
A tool in PBS that is utilized prior to Denial Mode, and continues to award trips to each Pilot's line, if possible, until such line is at or above the threshold.
Force Priority Stack Date on SLG
A tool in PBS that ensures a Pilot who is awarded a line during the SLG process is awarded a trip that is scheduled to operate on the specified priority stack date.
Max Followed By Time
The maximum time between trips that are awarded via the "Followed By" bid statement.
Max Iteration
A parameter in PBS that limits the number of trips PBS considers when attempting to construct a line.
Max Passes
A parameter in PBS that limits the number of attempts by PBS to award lines to all Pilots in a Base Position.
Max Reserves
A parameter in PBS that limits the number of Pilots permitted to be awarded a Reserve Schedule in a Base Position.
Maximum Stack Height
A parameter in PBS that limits a stack after all Pilots in the Base Position are awarded a line.
Priority Stack Date
A designated date that is unstacked before PBS unstacks any other date. Priority stack date is limited to days which receive Holiday Pay.
Reduced Lower Limit (RLL)
A line that is awarded below the minimum Credit value for the Month when the Pilot could not legally be awarded a line within the Credit Window.
Secondary Line Generation (SLG)
The final PBS process, used after Shuffle and Denial Mode, that ignores a Pilot's bid preferences in an attempt to construct a line for the Pilot.
Shuffle
A tool in PBS that:
Stack
The number of duty periods that remain in Open Flying Time on a given Calendar Day at the end of a bid run.
Threshold
The target Credit value for each line in each Base Position in a Bid Period.
Trailing Line Value (TLV)
The twelve (12) Bid Period rolling average of the ALV for a Base Position.
Unstack
A tool in PBS that assigns trips to Pilots in such a way as to prevent a stack that is greater than the Maximum Stack Height.
Vacation Any
A function applied during the PBS award process in which vacation days may be moved as needed so as to avoid conflicts with preferred trips. Vacation Any does not change the number of vacation days or the Credit of the awarded schedule.
Virtual Credit
A credit value applied to an activity or absence only during schedule construction in PBS. Virtual Credit has no value once the schedule is awarded.
Transitions
State of the Union, February 2024
Alaska Pilots Get Ready for PBS
Merger: Process Discussion
State of the Union, November 2023
Alaska Pilots’ MEC Committee Profiles: Professional Standards and DEBI
Elevate Your Retirement Benefits: 401(k) Spill Solutions
State of The Union: SFO Base, 2024 Vacation
Market Rate Adjusted Pay
Market Rate Adjustment
State of the Union, June 2023
Implementation Update and State of the Union
2023 State of the Union and New LOAs
Reassignment, Cancelation, Delay, and Severe Irregular Operations
CBA 2022 Implementation: When and Why
Contract 2022 Implementation
TA 8: Ratification Process, What Happens Next
TA 7: Vacation
TA 6: Reserve
TA 5: Trip Ownership, Displacement, and Commuting
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